FOX HUNTING 2007
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From: Until All Are Free
Date: 25 Nov 2007, 23:11
I remember these types of situations well, the gut wrenching fear as you realise that the hunt is about to attack, you're seriously outnumbered and all the sabs are spread out. You've got hunt scum all over the place, all you can do is try to get everyone out in one piece, and often there's not even anywhere to go....
If you've got the courage and fitness to stand up to these people then please join your local sabbing group. Whilst I remember the fear like it was yesterday, (and I've got goosebumps just thinking about it), the animals need us and I'll be contacting my local group asap!
From~
Delly Doolittle (Go Vegan!)
James-Two Finger Zen
Tierra ~Abolition, Veganism, & Direct Action
EARTH-FORCE RISING
Secret Ninja
Aquaman ~ Ocean Defender
neesan
YAFA
Lina
Sabs Attacked During Fox Hunt - Essex and Suffolk Hunt UK
Anti-hunt protestors claim that this afternoon police ignored blatant illegal fox hunting and failed to prevent a serious assault against them.
At the Essex and Suffolk Hunt, held at Bluegate Farm, Wherstead today (Sat 24th November) a hunt rider was seen to ride his horse over a female protester repeatedly, causing significant injuries to her legs and back.
While the hunt were in the vicinity of Freston Church, it is alleged that the hounds were chasing a fox over a road after emerging from a wood in pursuit. It is claimed that the huntsman was closeby and was doing nothing to prevent the hounds from chasing the live quarry.
The protesters saw no sign of an artificial trail having been laid, though he hunt did have a bird of prey. This would allow them under the Hunting Act 2004 to use two hounds (HW: Please note this is incorrect, a hunt can use as many hounds as they wish to flush to a bird of prey.) in order to flush a fox out of woodland to be killed by the bird. The fox however was seen being pursued by the whole pack of about 20 hounds, and the bird of prey was not in the vicinity.
When protesters attempted to turn the hounds back from the public road, they say the hunter galloped at two females, knocking one to the ground, then rode his horse over her on four or five separate occasions, a hoof only narrowly missing her head.
Lee Moon, spokesman for the Hunt Saboteurs Association commented, “It would appear to be business as usual in East Anglia almost three years after the hunt ban came into force. We are still seeing fox hunts acting as if they are above the law. Chasing and killing foxes and indiscriminate violence are traditions in this part of the country, and the Essex and Suffolk Hunt seem to embody these customs.
Several Hunt stewards from this very hunt were convicted of violence against protesters earlier in 2007, and two huntsmen in Essex have been found guilty of assault in recent years, one for assault on the police. The hunts are the lawbreakers and we will be pressing the police to fully investigate this horrific incident.
Several complaints had earlier been made to Suffolk police attending the hunt of illegal hunting and racist abuse, and with three vehicles and a video camera there would appear to have been sufficient resources to gain evidence of the hunt’s potential law breaking, but no police were accompanying the hounds when they were seen chasing the fox.”
Taken from HSA website
Hunt Watch
PO Box 487
Norwich
Norfolk
NR5 8WE
07952 550 054
From: Until All Are Free
Date: 25 Nov 2007, 23:11
I remember these types of situations well, the gut wrenching fear as you realise that the hunt is about to attack, you're seriously outnumbered and all the sabs are spread out. You've got hunt scum all over the place, all you can do is try to get everyone out in one piece, and often there's not even anywhere to go....
If you've got the courage and fitness to stand up to these people then please join your local sabbing group. Whilst I remember the fear like it was yesterday, (and I've got goosebumps just thinking about it), the animals need us and I'll be contacting my local group asap!
Delly Doolittle (Go Vegan!)
James-Two Finger Zen
Tierra ~Abolition, Veganism, & Direct Action
EARTH-FORCE RISING
Secret Ninja
Aquaman ~ Ocean Defender
neesan
YAFA
Lina
Anti-hunt protestors claim that this afternoon police ignored blatant illegal fox hunting and failed to prevent a serious assault against them.
At the Essex and Suffolk Hunt, held at Bluegate Farm, Wherstead today (Sat 24th November) a hunt rider was seen to ride his horse over a female protester repeatedly, causing significant injuries to her legs and back.
While the hunt were in the vicinity of Freston Church, it is alleged that the hounds were chasing a fox over a road after emerging from a wood in pursuit. It is claimed that the huntsman was closeby and was doing nothing to prevent the hounds from chasing the live quarry.
The protesters saw no sign of an artificial trail having been laid, though he hunt did have a bird of prey. This would allow them under the Hunting Act 2004 to use two hounds (HW: Please note this is incorrect, a hunt can use as many hounds as they wish to flush to a bird of prey.) in order to flush a fox out of woodland to be killed by the bird. The fox however was seen being pursued by the whole pack of about 20 hounds, and the bird of prey was not in the vicinity.
When protesters attempted to turn the hounds back from the public road, they say the hunter galloped at two females, knocking one to the ground, then rode his horse over her on four or five separate occasions, a hoof only narrowly missing her head.
Lee Moon, spokesman for the Hunt Saboteurs Association commented, “It would appear to be business as usual in East Anglia almost three years after the hunt ban came into force. We are still seeing fox hunts acting as if they are above the law. Chasing and killing foxes and indiscriminate violence are traditions in this part of the country, and the Essex and Suffolk Hunt seem to embody these customs.
Several Hunt stewards from this very hunt were convicted of violence against protesters earlier in 2007, and two huntsmen in Essex have been found guilty of assault in recent years, one for assault on the police. The hunts are the lawbreakers and we will be pressing the police to fully investigate this horrific incident.
Several complaints had earlier been made to Suffolk police attending the hunt of illegal hunting and racist abuse, and with three vehicles and a video camera there would appear to have been sufficient resources to gain evidence of the hunt’s potential law breaking, but no police were accompanying the hounds when they were seen chasing the fox.”
Taken from HSA website
Hunt Watch
PO Box 487
Norwich
Norfolk
NR5 8WE
07952 550 054
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